We need some photos of Gloucestershire and Cotswold landmarks to use as desktop backgrounds for our custom distributions of the Raspberry Pi operating system, Raspbian, for our events this year. We include our workshop/tutorial files, WiFi setup etc. with these…
Author: Andrew Oakley
Downloads for Workshops – Nov 2016
Downloads to support the tutorials for our Saturday 26 November event are now available: • http://www.cotswoldjam.org/downloads/2016-11/ This includes: • Scratch Balloon Drop Maths Quiz by Steve Martin • Buzz Wire electronics & Python tutorial by David Pride • Minecraft Dungeon…
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Raspberry Pi Christmas 2016 Buyers’ Guide
This list is outdated; see our Raspberry Pi Christmas Shopping Wishlist 2018 If you’re completely new to the Raspberry Pi, here are my recommendations for UK purchases for Christmas 2016. All prices include VAT and mainland UK P&P unless otherwise…
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Photos of Sat 24 Sept event
Photos from our Saturday 24 September 2016 event are now available on our Facebook group. You don’t need to join our group to view them. • https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.1209626345777333 Thanks to Paul Collins for the photos.
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September 2016 tutorial downloads
Code samples and PDFs for our Sat 24 Sept 2016 tutorial sessions are now available: http://www.cotswoldjam.org/downloads/2016-09 All our code & documents are public domain and you are encouraged to copy, re-use and edit them in any way you like, without…
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July 2016 tutorial downloads
Code samples and PDFs for our Sat 2 July 2016 tutorial sessions are now available: http://www.cotswoldjam.org/downloads/2016-07 All our code & documents are public domain and you are encouraged to copy, re-use and edit them in any way you like, without…
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June event rescheduled to Sat 2 July
Unfortunately we have had to reschedule our 25 June Raspberry Pi event to Saturday 2 July. The time remains 1-4pm. This is due to a clash with the university’s open day, which we have no control over. Tickets and tutorial…
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Photos of Sat 30 April 2016 event
Photos from our Saturday 30 April 2016 event are now available on our Facebook group. You don’t need to join Facebook to view them. • https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.1087495581323744 Thanks to David Pride, Brian Corteil, Daniel Leyfield and Anna Fellows for the photos.
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LEGO® Burglar Alarm and Scratch Maze Game tutorial files
Code samples and tutorial PDFs (and MS-Word source) for our Saturday 30 April 2016 event are now available: http://www.cotswoldjam.org/downloads/2016-04 All our code & documents are public domain and you are encouraged to copy, re-use and edit them in any way…
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Our custom Raspbian image for tutorials
For each Cotswold Raspberry Jam, I produce a custom version of the Raspberry Pi’s Raspbian operating system, all set up ready for tutorials and other projects at the event. You can download the one for our Sat 2 July 2016…